As a pastor it is one's responsibility to explain oneself when the corporate church has either a misunderstanding of what you preach OR if what they say is adequately backed by scripture within proper hermeneutics, then to either recant or rethink what your teaching. This is absolutely imperative, a pastor isn't a pastor if his care only extends within the confines of the local church and yet rejects his responsibility for the corporate church.
Questions to consider
Why does God love man so? Why does He want to alleviate suffering? Is it because that is what we want? Or is it because we reflect the desires of God (in which case we get back to why does God desire thus?)?
-Include scripture, not words.
Which bears more weight on a believers salvation? Christ' teachings or His sacrifice on the cross? Where did the wrath that was poured out on Christ come from? Where was that wrath headed before Christ coming? What caused God to have wrath? Is that wrath completely assuaged from those who reject His son whom He sent as the propitiation for sins? If so how can this be? Considering that we are rejecting, yet again Gods way and going about our way, which is what happened in the Garden of Eden, thus nothing then has changed or has been solved.
God is love but he is also just, jealous, holy, righteous, vengeful, etc.
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